I want to reiterate that I actually think the part where Said says “examples?” is basically just good (and is only bad insofar as it creates a looming worry of particular kinds of frustrating, unproductive and time-consuming conversations that are likely to follow in some subsets of discussions)
(edit: I actually am pretty frustrated that “examples?” became the go-to example people talked about and reified as a kinda rude thing Said did. I think I basically agree this process is good:
Alice → writes confident posts without examples
Bob → says “examples?”
Alice → either gives (at least one, and yeah ideally 3) examples, or says “Oh, I don’t have any yet, this is speculative, so YMMV”, or doesn’t reply but feels a bit chagrined.
I want to reiterate that I actually think the part where Said says “examples?” is basically just good (and is only bad insofar as it creates a looming worry of particular kinds of frustrating, unproductive and time-consuming conversations that are likely to follow in some subsets of discussions)
(edit: I actually am pretty frustrated that “examples?” became the go-to example people talked about and reified as a kinda rude thing Said did. I think I basically agree this process is good:
Alice → writes confident posts without examples
Bob → says “examples?”
Alice → either gives (at least one, and yeah ideally 3) examples, or says “Oh, I don’t have any yet, this is speculative, so YMMV”, or doesn’t reply but feels a bit chagrined.
)
Oops, sorry for saying something that probabilistically implied a strawman of you.